The user should learn some (fairly elementary) mathematics.
The limit of a nested expression of the form: Nest[f,...], if it
exists, is a fixed point of the function f. A fixed point of f is a
root of f[x]-x==0.
Andrzej Kozlowski
Tokyo, Japan
On 28 Nov 2006, at 20:03, bobbaillie at frii.com wrote:
danl at wolfram.com wrote:
For examples such as this one gets results exactly
as indicated in the TS response: use Solve to find an exact representation
of the fixed point for the iteration.
Daniel Lichtblau
Wolfram Research
Yes, you can use Solve[x == Sqrt[5 + x]] to get the exact solution to
this particular problem.
But how is the user supposed to know what equation to solve?
It is unfortunate that Mathematica is unable to give an exact solution
to the limit of expressions like:
Sqrt[10]
Sqrt[5+Sqrt[10]]
Sqrt[5+ Sqrt[5+Sqrt[10]]]
...